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Friday, March 11, 2011

Navigational aids: #7 The luncheon beacon.

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Leaving Burrow Head, we paddled past the rather grandly named... ...Isles of Burrow. Eventually (and remember we were still quite without ...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Devil's bridge of Burrow Head.

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Due to lost time on the shuttle, we had started a little later than planned. We still needed to meet the tidal window at Burrow Head and so ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Touching the past on the way to Burrow Head.

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At Bloody Neuk , about 4km short of Burrow Head, we came across the wreck of the SV Chile , which came to grief here in WW1. Although she ...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Less fond of basking sharks than otters.

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We paddled down the Machars peninsula and across Monreith Bay. Phil's silhouette was ringed by the bright water of  Luce Bay. Crazy dry...
Monday, March 07, 2011

A peculiarly cold form of burnishment, in Port William.

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The tide was ebbing fast from the little harbour of Port William. The village was  planned and built in the 1770's by Sir William Maxwel...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

We were so far south that there was almost a whiff of civilisation in the air.

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At the end of January we drove far to the south, into the recesses of Galloway's remote Machars peninsula. The winter sun struggled in...
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Saturday, March 05, 2011

Sea kayaking round Kerrera

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From Oban sea front round Kerrera , a 23km day paddle on the Firth of Lorn, February 2011. Crossing Oban Bay to Kerrera.  Although we star...